[Mitworld] New: Max Tegmark on Cosmology, Panel on SBIR Funding

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MIT World - Newsletter - Volume 8 | Number 6 | October 7, 2008
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[PRECISION COSMOLOGY]

Buzz Lightyear has nothing on Max Tegmark, who takes his alumni audience
on a dizzying tour of the universe and beyond. Before Tegmark begins,
MIT President Susan Hockfield highlights some newsworthy Institute
milestones and initiatives, including breaking ground on a new cancer
research center that will bring together engineering and life sciences;
and pioneering work on new energy solutions, with a focus on harnessing
light from the sun.

SPEAKER:
Max Tegmark
Associate Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, MIT


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/600/>

[QUOTE]
"It wasn't until 1925 that the American astronomer Edwin Hubble showed
that there were other galaxies. Now we're so spoiled, with a few clicks
of the mouse, we can zoom out 'til a whole galaxy is just a little dot,
and other dots -- not stars but other galaxies, with hundreds of
millions of stars of their own."
-- Max Tegmark


EVENT HOST: Alumni Association <http://alum.mit.edu/>

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[INNOVATION TO COMMERCIALIZATION:
 USING GOVERNMENT FUNDING TO KICK START YOUR START-UP]

This informative roundtable provides useful tips to aspiring
entrepreneurs on obtaining government dollars. Through conversation and
Q&A, moderator Bruce Gellerman elicits some key dos and don'ts from a
National Science Foundation small business program officer, and from
tech CEOs who have benefited from the government's programs.

MODERATOR:
Bruce Gellerman
Producer and Reporter, Living on Earth, Public Radio International

PANELISTS:
Thomas Allnutt
Program Director, National Science Foundation, Small Business Innovation
Research & Small Business Technology Transfer

Milton Chen
CEO, VSee

Christopher Loose PhD '07
Chief Technology Officer, Semprus Biosciences

Bill Townsend '84, SM '77
Founder, Barrett Technology


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/599/>

[QUOTE]
"We have room for people who want VC, people who want to sell services,
people who want bootstrapping. We're open to anything that's reasonable.
We're looking for people who've thought through at least one plan."
-- Thomas Allnut


EVENT HOST: MIT Enterprise Forum <http://enterpriseforum.mit.edu/>

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MIT Alumni Association
Technology Day 2008 presents

Cynthia Breazeal
LG Career Development Professor of Media Arts and Sciences
Director, Personal Robots Group, MIT Media Laboratory

Personal Robots

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[SPONSORED LINK]

MIT System Design and Management Conference

SYSTEMS THINKING FOR CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES

SDM's annual conference provides opportunities for systems thinkers to
learn practical applications from some of the world's leading innovators
from MIT and industry -- as well as from each other.

Conference speakers from MIT:
Peter Senge, Yossi Sheffi, Olivier de Weck, Nancy Leveson, Patrick Hale

Conference speakers from industry:
Valerie Casey, IDEO; John deVadoss, Microsoft Corporation; Paul Murray,
Herman Miller; Girish Navani, eClinical Works; Lee Ng, Agilent
Technologies; Michael Schulte, Capgemini; Dharmesh Shah, HubSpot

October 23 - 24, 2008

<http://sdm.mit.edu/index.php?fileName=conf08/sdm_ conference.html>
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